Force Batch File To Run As Admin !!hot!! ⏰ 🔥
His boss blinked. "Batch files can't get promotions."
He sighed. He could use a scheduled task with highest privileges. Or he could cheat. force batch file to run as admin
Alan smiled. "This one could."
Alan sipped his cold coffee. "The batch file… promoted itself." His boss blinked
The problem was simple, infuriatingly so: the cleanup script—a humble cleanup_logs.bat —needed admin rights to delete the old system logs. But the scheduled task kept running it under the SYSTEM account with limited token privileges, and the junior admin who set it up was long gone. his boss asked
The next morning, his boss asked, "Hey, did the migration finish?"